Electron-beam-assisted superplastic shaping of nanoscale amorphous silica

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zheng, Kun ^a   Wang, Chengcai ^b   Cheng, Yong Qiang ^c   Yue, Yonghai ^a   Han, Xiaodong ^a   Zhang, Ze ^a   Shan, Zhiwei ^b   Mao, Scott X ^d   Ye, Miaomiao ^e   Yin, Yadong ^e   Ma, Evan ^b,c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^d University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; PLASTIC; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; ELECTRON BEAM; ILLUMINATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; PHYSICAL STRESS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TENSION;

EID: 84880258075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1021     Document Type: Article

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